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It is 69 years today since Val McDermid was born.
Val McDermid is a Scottish crime writer born in Kirkcaldy, Fife. She attended Kirkcaldy High School where she was among a group of pupils that participated in a controversial project for especially talented students based on IQ tests. When she was seventeen, she was the first student from a Scottish state school to be admitted to St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, where she graduated with a Bachelor o...
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Charteris, Leslie
1907 - 1993
Leslie Charteris was born in colonial Singapore as Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin. His father, Suat Chuan Yin, was a wealthy...
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Melville, Herman
1819 - 1891
American author born in New York. Melville came from a wealthy family, but when his merchant father went bankrupt, he was...
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Malamud, Bernard
1914 - 1986
Bernard Malamud was an American author born in Brooklyn, New York, to a family of Russian Jewish immigrants. The family...
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Wright, Laurali R.
1939 - 2001
Canadian crime-fiction writer and journalist. She was born as Laurali R. (Rose) Appleby in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, in...
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